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Subject: Re: FPGAs playing chess--an expert opinion

Author: Greg Lindahl

Date: 13:11:10 12/20/99

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On December 17, 1999 at 22:58:36, Dann Corbit wrote:

>There is a recent discussion on the computer chess club internet forum about the
>feasibility of creating a chess chip using FPGA.  Now, a chess chip *must* have
>very fast access to large amounts of shared memory, and also be able to execute
>an instruction set (much like a general purpose CPU -- but the instruction set
>is {of course} specialized for chess).

I'm not so sure that people would consider Deep Blue's chips to have either a
"large amount of shared memory" or an instruction set much like a general
purpose CPU. Changing your assumptions changes your answer, of course.



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